Which Workers are Most Exposed to covid -19 and Social Distancing Effects in a Dual Labour Market?

Jeisson Cárdenas (jeisson.cardenas-rubio@warwick.ac.uk), Jaime Montana (jaime.montana@psemail.eu) and Derek Bosworth (derek.bosworth@warwick.ac.uk)

Revista de Economía del Rosario, 2021, vol. 24, issue 2, No 19752

Abstract: This paper provides evidence for the different potential effects of covid-19 on formal and informal employment, using the work-from-home (Dingel & Neiman, 2020; Saltiel, 2020) and the proximity occupation approaches (Mongey et al., 2020) in Colombia. We found that only 13 % of informal employment positions can be performed from home (remotely) and that the figure for formal employment is twice as large (20 %). We recoded the raw occupational responses of the Colombian Household Survey to a granular level to directly combine occupational information from two sources: O*net and step. We then calculated work-from-home estimates, extracting cohesive results from both sources. We investigated

Keywords: covid-19; occupational characteristics; informality; work-from-home; proximity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J46 J82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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